Building America Unit 3 Building America

Horace Mann was responsible for the start of public education.

Who had the title "Father of the American Missions"?

Slave who was allowed to work for his freedom; later becoming pastor of Bethel Church

What do we call education that passes accumulated knowledge of the past to the present generation?

The Cherokee Indians called their relocation to the Oklahoma territory "The Trail of Tears".

Unitarianism is a religious philosophy that was developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Schoolroom Poet who wrote "Snowbound"

wrote exciting stories about frontier life in his "Leatherstocking Tales"

Edward Hicks is best remembered for his paintings of George Washington.

The Choctaw Indians were the only North American tribe their own with written language.

introduced the Blue-Backed Speller and wrote the first dictionary of the American language